Going mobile this year? What’s your biggest big data challenge?

We received insightful responses to the polls from our “Mobile and Big Data go Instant and Interactive” webinars about the challenges users of all types face with business analytics. The complexity of data integration, lack of skills and resources, and the need to analyze unstructured data are the most significant big data challenges identified for over 80% of attendees. 50% of our attendees either have a current mobile BI solution in place or plan to in the future.

What does this mean for the future of analytics? Whether mobilizing your sales force or empowering data analysts to discover meaning from data in Hadoop, a complete business analytics solution must address the business pressures of a continual inundation of data and the need to access and interact with that data instantly in simple, familiar ways.

Not surprising that the response to Pentaho’s Business Analytics 4.8 has been overwhelmingly positive — the best of analytics offered up in a mobile optimized experience for business users and Instaview broadening big data access to data analysts for data discovery.